Cover for household utensils



(No Model.)

A. SGHOTT. COVER FOR HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS.

No. 495,684. V Patented Apr. 18, 1893.

UNITED" STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON SOHOTT, OF TURNER JUNCTION, ILLINOIS.

COVER FOR HOUSEHOLD tJTENSlLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,684, dated April18, 1893.

Application filed December 15, 1891. Serial No. 415,113. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANTON SCHOTT, residing at Turner Junction, Du Pagecounty, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCovers for Household Utensils, of which the following is a description.

My invention is designed to be particularly applicable to the cover ofvessels or receptacles placed in a bed room or a sick room.

The object of my invention is to obtain a cover which can be removedfrom and replaced on the vessel or receptacle, for which it is adapted,without noise; and further, a cover which, when placed in position onthe utensil or receptacle adapted therefor, shall close the sametightly, and, to a large extent prevent the escape from such vessel ofany gases or offensive odors.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings accompanying and forminga part hereof, in which:

Figure 1, is a crosssection of a cover embodying my device; Fig. 2, afront elevation of a receptacle adapted to have the cover placed thereonwith the upper portion of such receptacle in cross-section and with acover thereon also shown in cross-section, having my device embodiedtherein; Fig. 3, an elevation of a vessel adapted to have a coverembodying my invention thereon with such cover and the upper part of thereceptacle shown in cross-section; that portion of the cover embodyingmy invention being a modification of the device illustrated in Figs. 1and 2.

Like letters of reference are used to indicate a given part where morethan one view thereof is shown. I

A, is an ordinary crockery receptacle or vessel; B, the cover thereof.

D, is a ring of flexible material, preferably rubber.

E, is astrip of flexible material, preferably canvas or other clothattached to that portion of the elastic ring D which in use is exposedto the action of any gases or vapors arising from the contents of thereceptacle A. The ring D consists of the flat portion (1 adapted to restupon the upper edge of the receptacle or vessel A, and the sphericalportion (1 adapted to press against the inner surface of the vessel A.In the drawings, Fig. 3, the ring D composed of the parts d, d isillustrated as having no protecting flexible material E thereon, andwhen the cover embodying the device is used in receptacles or vesselswhereof the contents are not liable to generate gases tending to destroythe rubber or other flexible material composing the ring D, suchprotecting material E is not required and may be omitted as isillustrated in Fig. 3. Where the protecting material is used, the'flatportion d of the ring D may be omitted, suchv protecting material beingadapted to rest upon the upper edge of the receptacle A, and sphericalportion d of the ring D covered by the strip E of flexible materialbeing adapted to press against the inner sur face of the vessel A.

F, is that portion of the cover 13 on the under side thereof againstwhich the ring D is drawn, principally by the elasticity of such ringwhen placed in position on the cover B or by the forcing of the cover inposition when the same is placed on such receptacle A, and the dottedline G indicates the position the ring D would assume if the sidesthereof were not compressed by the wall E.

It is evident that when the cover B is placed upon the receptacle A thepart 01 of the ring D coming in contact with the upper edge of the wallsof the receptacle and such ring D being composed entirely of indiarubber, or india rubber or other flexible material having a facingthereon of cloth, canvas or other textile material, the noise occasionedby a crockery cover coming in contact with the crockery receptacle orvessel will be obviated and in addition thereto by the close fittingeasily obtainable between the portion d of the ring D and the walls ofthe receptacle or vessel A no appreciable amount of gases or odors willescape from the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cover for household utensils, the combination of a circularabutment on the under side of the cover, and an elastic ring fittingover the abutment, and a cover of textile material over the part of theelastic ring which comes in contact. with the vessel on which the coveris placed and the part thereof exposed to the contents of the vessel,such elastic cover extending beyond the ring and resting against thesubstantially horizontal under side of the cover outside of the circularabutment and adapted to come in contact With the upper edge of thevessel on which the cover is placed; substantially as described.

2. In a cover for household utensils, the combination of a circularabutment on the under side of the cover and an elastic ring fitting overthe abutment, such ring having a portion thereof circular incross-section and adapted to be compressed by the walls of the vessel orreceptacle on which the cover is placed, a portion thereof rectangularin crosssection and resting against the substantially horizontal underside of the cover outside of I 5 the circular abutment and adapted tocome in contact with the upper edge of the vessel on which the cover isplaced, and a covering of textile material over the part of the elasticring which comes in contact with the vessel on which the cover is placedand. the part thereof exposed to the contents of the vessel;substantially as described.

ANTON SCHOTT.

Witnesses:

F. L. BROWN, CHARLES T. BROWN.

